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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

The attendance at the Lemonwei1
convention in this city wednesday anC
Thursday was not very large. A full re-
port of the same will appear in our next
issue.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

Geo. A. Neeves, served papers a
gainst the Centralia Pulp and water
Power Co., for injunctional proceedings,
on account of that company backing
water upon his property. A hearing
has not vet been given.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

Boots, shoes, slippers, rubbers, &C.,
full line at c. E. Pariseau's. Sold
close and warranted the best.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

Receipt books and legal blanks of all
kinds for sale at this office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

Mr.. Taylor expects to give another
such shoot the 23d of this month. Time
and place, will be given in due time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

Swell body cutters for sale at j. f.
Scores wagon manufactory, Centralia.
W2
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17
City Officers.

ALDERxEN.-First ward Jacob Lutz and Fred
Closuit; Second ward Dave Kammeran and
Louis schrader; Third ward 7. c. st. Amour and
Frank PomainVille.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17
G. B. w. g. st. Paul R,y.

Tickets te all points in the United States and
Canada.
JOHN G. LOVE, Local Agent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

90 sThe Great Success" Morgan's own
DO make, So Ladies' Shoe, by mail, n cents
When ordering samples of Dress Goods, STATE
as near as possible color and price vAntel
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
MasttlGLed Mo,ten.

l am often asked, says a st. Louis
bank president in the Globe Democrat,
whether this or that piece of money is
redeemable. 1t is safe to say, unless the
moneys identity is entirely gone, that it
is redeemable. In fact, one may say
that money in the shape of ashes can be
restored. It is a fact that after the
Chicago fire ashes were redeemed. It
came about in this way: It is customary
in banks to do money up in packages,
say of $40, 900 each, and in the big fire
of course hundreds and hundreds of
these packages were reduced to ashes.
but the shape of the package remained
and wherever the package could be sent
on to Washington without crumbling the
ashes, the money was sure to be re-
placed. It was done by nimble-fngered
women in the treasury department,
whose trained touch and sight are won
derfully acute. It is well known that
the ashes of a newspaper, if dampened,
will show traces of the printing. So
was it with the bills. These
women would moisten the package of
apparently useless ashes, and to their ex-
perienced eye the number and charac-
ter of the bill would at once appear as if
they had touched it with a magic wand.
80 thousands and thousands of dollars
were redeemed by these patient women.
A friend Of mine, a country merchant,
afraid Of banks, placed a large sum of
money IN bills in a stone jar on a shelf
IN his store, where he thought it would
be quite safe. When he went to look at
it one day. some time after, it was amass
of fragments. Mice had got into the jar
and chewed the bills into the minutest
parts. Then they had mixed them all
up, and altogether it was q fearful look
ing mess. He sent a cigar. box full of it
to me. I forwarded IL to- Washington.
and what do you think2 Out of the
S1,145 originally in the pile, a little over
81, 900 was redeemed, the parts beyond
recall being only the mere fbres of the
bills. So the man lost only 800 by his
foolishness. The reclamation Of such
money il done entirely By women, whose
patience especially fits them for the
monotonous work.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
Rice Culture,

Before u civil war, rice culture wal
an important industry in several of TIT
Southern States. One of the present
signs of the times is that this industry il
again picking up. Last year, according
to the American Cultivator, hundred
and fifty million pounds were grown
and about one hundred million more
imported. This year our production is
estimated at one hundred and seventy.
five million pounds, and perhaps more.
Rice is being substituted for sugar on
| plantations in Louisiana, where the lat
ter has been found Improbable. 1t is
also grown to some extent in Minnesota,
though it is mainly wild rice, and the
chief expense of the crop is in harvesting
and cleaning it.
To grow rice under the best conditions
the land must be alternately flooded and
drained. The crop requires prompti-
tude in harvesting, as when fully ripe it
soon shells and wastes. An average crop
is thirty bushels of rice, besides some
waste, broken rice and meal that is used
for feeding stock. The Wholesale price
now is 4 "a cents to 5 cents per pound,
and a bushel weighs about twenty-eight
pounds. There are many risks in rice
growing and the price often fuctuates
largely. 1t is hardly probable that at
present prices rice growing will prove
profitable in the Northern States. If
tried it should be either on some lakes
or ponds on the borders of which rice
formerly grew, or the upland rice should
be sown, which may be cultivated and
harvested the same as other grain.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
A SO,sa to Sing.


A song Of yesterday: Love, shall we sing it,
Timed to the pulses Of hours that are past
A song of yesterday: Love, shall W. bring it
Back from the life where it ran too fasts
Days that arc dreams to us now as we wor-
der
Tow we could fancy we loved well thena
Dbl and dreams that are put asunder
ILdreams and days that are sweeter
a9,.gain.
A song of today: o love, shall we sing it,
Warm with new kisses upon the lips,
With Time wrung dry as great hearts can
wiring it,
And Life blown fair like yon white ships:
What strong song can we build and fashion
To sing how love hath girt us round?
What wide world is there made for passion
That reaches beyond the gates of sounds
A song of tomorrow: Love, shall we sing it,
Looking across the nights and the days,
Where our two souls together shall wing it
Beyond the measure of Fancy's gaze2
Yes, dear love, let us sing of tomorrow,
Each one fuller of loneliness,
Days without measure of tears or sorrow,
Only the sweeter as.life grows less.
Nv. j. Henderson.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
An Insect Mimic.

Nature has an article in which the au-
thor narrates his observations of an insect
mimic. He was in Delhi and observed
in the sunshine a dipterous insect, as he
supposed, upon the wall. So much it
resembled a common house fly feeding
upon something stuck upon the wallthat
naturally flies would be led to the spot
to share the food and become an easy
prey to this really neuropterous insect
OF the genus Mantispa, which upon close
inspection proved to have four legs in
stead Of six like the fly, and what it APP
peared to be eating was simply a part of
it's v substance, its p~rothrorax being
50 c%uriously modified as TO resemble a
proboscis.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
breathing Through the Mouth,

Those people who breathe throughth h
mouth draw dust constantly into their
lungs, where it remains permanently for
Professor TyndaIl has shown that the
exhaled air is absolutely free from dust
PARTICLES, Professor Reelam asserts that
cry people attheags of 40 usuailv have
IN their lungs a whole granme Of cal
careous dust, which they can never
again get rid Of, and which may eneen
der dangerous disease. Few people
know that their skins as wen as their
lungs need . constant supply Of oxygen.
The skin, as well as the lungs, breathes
and purifes the blood, as Is shown by
the fast that the arterial blood which
goes 70 the skin does not turn venous
and dark elsewhere, but remains rcd and
paFes-'he EDoeh,
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
something CONCERNING Matches.

Until twenty-five years ago the larger
part Of the matches used in this country
were imported from England and Ger
many. Then the manufacture began
here and prospered greatly. For the
last ten years, n firm has succeeded in
doing most Of the business, buying up
competitors OF soaring away competi-
ton. The matches Of American manu-
facture most in use to-day are the ordi-
nary sulphur match, which constitutes
four-ifths Of the supply, owing to its
cheapness, the parlor match, which gives
out no offensive odor, and the safety
MATCH Of whielpon firm enjoys q mon
opoIY. The ordinary sulphur match il
made BIZ dipping the splints into a bath
of melted sulphur and then into the
phosphorous paste. The wood for the
splints Is commonly white pine, and
sometimes beech, birch poplar orcedar.
Much Of it is brought from Canada, and
~ AASNA Las bUCA h0G ASAtu1lu Ilat SUD-
stitntes have been eagerly looked for.
The Japanese use . paper match, which
may be made here should wood become
scarce. The entire labor of match max
Ing, 9en 70 counting the matches and
putting them into the boxes, is now
done by machinery. The wood is cut
into splinters by knives working trans
yersely, and each splint takes its place
upon an endless belt which carries IL to
The sulphur bath ana then to the phos.
phorous paste. The round splints are
made by passing The square sticks
through q steel plate perforated with
round holes. The common grade Of
asfInhua matches can now be bought Il
retail " ratp u ten eents for eighteen
boxes cecil eontaining ss~ventyslye
matches, or % rate 81 1856 matches
fot ons cent
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
Bio Pau fo,. LITERARY Work

To the fortune he has made out of
ivory trading, Mr.. Stanley will be able
to add $50, 900 which he will receive
from Bentley, the London publisher, for
the book which he is about to write
about his present trip. This is a very
large sum to get for a single work.
Thackeray never made over $50, 600 for
any N of his books. Wilkie Collins
got 500, 900 for Armadale. George Eliot
$40, 900 for Middlemarch. Dickens got
more than Thackeray, but far
from as much for any one work
as Stanley. Scott, however, received
$40, 900 for Woodstock. There is a
big drop below this, Lord Lytton get
ting only SO, 900 for his earlier novels.
One must turn to the histories for any
thing like Stanley's price, Macaulay
getting a single check of 800, 900 for
the first volume of his history, but
Macaulay left an estate of only $500, 900
and he died with all the profits of his
work about him, while Mrs. Grant has
received $494, 900 for General Grants
memoir. This is the advantage of serv-
ing a republic; A hundred thousand
pounds to a successful general would
seem a big grant even in England. The
United States citizens have given it
without feeling" 1t, and not as a grant
but as pay for good work.-[Philadel-
phia Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
PEARLS OF

Beauty is like royalty-all doors oper
to j..
A mistake is one thing and a blundel
is another.
We judge, in this world, not by inten.
ton, but by result.
Genius is so rare that it must impress
one when one meets it.
Men love to hear of their power, but
have an extreme disrelish to be told
their duty.
When what is good comes of age and
is likely to live, there is eason for re-
joicing.
People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after.
How little do they see what is who
frame their hasty judgment upon that
which seems.
A complete and generous education
fits a man to perform justly, skilfully
and magnanimously all the offices of
peace and war.
They are not the best students who are
most dependent on books. What can be
got out of them is at best only material;
a man must build a house for himself.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

During the last eight years the Ameri-
can Snnday-school Union has established
173 Sunday-schools in the Indian Terri
tory, containing 973 teachers, and 6931
scholars. One missionary reports his
work last year as having been among
eleven tribes, speaking as many different
dialects-Choctaws, Chickasaws, Chero-
KEGS, Greeks, Seminoles, Pottawatomies,
Caddoes, C~omanches, Wichitas, Kiowas
and Apachcs. Had the Union the
means, this work among these people
could be prosecuted upon a much larger
scale, and with even better results than
are at present obtained. Earnest and
well qualified men are ready for the
work as soon as means are forthcoming.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
CO7.MndM,n.

This mineral has long been used in the
arts as a preferable substitute for emery.
Its scarcity, and the expense of mining,
has prevented its extensive use for the
ordinary purposes to which emery. is
adapted by reason of its abundance.
Corundum is crude sapphire, and in
hardness ranks highest of all minerals,
excepting the diamond. It's use for
grinding wheels is in great demand, the
superior quality of these over emery
wheels having been demonstrated for
nearly every purpose. 1t requires an
extreme degree of heat to fuse the min
eral, and grinding wheels made of it are
said to be subjected to fully 5000 de-
grees, in the process of qualification.
This imparts a capacity Of resistance to
centrifugal force not attained in any
process of making up emery wheels, be-
side adding materially to the hardness or
cutting quality of the wheel.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
Ktlltng Beef for Hebrews.


As is well known, the Israelites are
very particular as to the use of butchers
meat, which, in order to be "koshero-
/. e., to comply with the ritual require
ments-ought only to be taken from ami
mails that are killed not only in the pres
ence of, but by a person of the faith,
specially appointed for the purpose.
Complaints in this respect have been of
frequent occurrence, many butchers or
dealers of game and fowl offering their
JEWISH clients s'unclean" meat. At a
recon- trial of this kind in Berlin, the
rabbi of the principal synagogue was
called upon the stand and testified as
follows: 1.-THE Mosaic law requires
that the Jew butcher be a person
of good reputation and morals, and
after undergoing an examination by the
rabbi, should only exercise his r1'artIular
function on the strength of I certifcat,
One of the tests of his fitness for the
place consists in PROMPTLY r~esharpenina
a knife whieh the xabbi has purposely
blunted. Dudngfhe act of butcherins
he has to say c,k Gain prayers; he must see
that the blood f Sis upon ashes or peal.
and, above all til % ne must avoid be-
ing touched by an one while in the act,
this itself renderi' g the slaughtered ami,
NAL unclean. He IS required to put his
seal upon the carcaas giving the date on
which the animal is s9iIed. No Israelite
is permitted to eat foR winch has been
killed more than three days before.
Paris american RenisET. -
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

In thirteen years, it is estimated, there
will not be another arabic acre of pub
lie lands to be disposed of. We have
accordingly thirteen years in which to
settle the problem Of immigration. Not
too long q time, certainly, when the i'm
portanee of the solution and the general
incompetency Of those who are trying to
furnish it are taken into account.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

Lightning has played queer freaks this
season. At Corning, Ia, it struck Frank
Strait, and the points of the cultivator
with which he was ploughing were
melted by lightning and Strait was
killed. The only mark on his body was
. dark blue spot on the side of his neck.
His shoes and stockings were torn to
shreds. Another bolt entered the resi-
dence of G. s. Meacham at Fruitland
Park, Fla, and meandered around the
premises until, meeting an umbrella
leaning against the wall, 1t ripped out
the ribs and made a bonfire of the cover.
II then left by the door. In Redwood,
Ill, lightning peeled the bark from a
tree, cutting it into six-inch pieces, and
drove them into the weather boarding
OF q house several feet away, so that the
whole front was decorated. A bolt
staack two persons at Marshfeld, Wis.
n9 OF them was struck upon the
aalder, the current passing down his
sRad through The ssGlls Of his shoe,
clean-cut round hole in the
Ind entering the floor. The
was likewise struck on the
Her, and the fluid passed out
b his slippers, making six clear
'as through the toe of each of
shtning made splinters Of the
the schooner alfred II.
1lbany, while the Captain and
stood upon her decks, yet not a
10 Wa injured.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

HeT IOOm. Die udu Tedu dDou6 Iut
work of the gang, and was in a state OF
terror for fear the house would be visi-
ted. One day a brilliant idea occurred
to her. She would capture one of the
mob. She planned it that one of them
would climb up to her corner window
by means of the conductor, enter with
out disturbing her, as she was a sound
sleeper, and go for that money. What
did she do but go out and buy a steel
trap-something big enough to hold a
fox. She got one of the servants to set
it for her, and the open trap was placed
in the top bureau drawer, and the chain
led out through the back side and made
fast.
Two nights passed without another
depreciation. We were keeping such a
sharp lookout that the fellows had to be
more fly. On the third night, at exactly
a quarter of 10. the old maid was
aroused from her deep sleep by a human
yell of pain, and she was no sooner on
end than she saw that she had caught
her man. He was down on his knees in
front of the bureau, and both hands
were fast in the trap. His first yell was
his only one. When he found the
woman was awake he calmly observed:
Excuse me-, but I think I'm in the
wrong room. Please don't make any
disturbance about it,"
"Who are youg
ga friend of Wills, and we both
came home a little sprung. Won't you
please help me to get my hands ~loose?'
There was a Will about the house
the mans own son-but he had not been
out that evening, nor was hein the habit
of drinking. Without getting out of
bed the woman touched an electric but
ton, and within ten minutes the house
was aroused, and two policemen had the
man in charge. The jaws of the trap
had caught him about the wrists, and he
had suffered a good deal of pain. He
was the Judge Wilcox chap, Burnsides,
JUNCTION and all. When taken to the
station his whiskers were found to be
glued on, and he also had a false wig.
When these were removed he stood
forth as pert and trim a thief as you
would wish to overhaul. He turned out
to be a New Orleans man named Davis,
and was only 26 years old.
The capture of Davis's partner fol-
lowed swiftly, and also in a curious way.
As a train was about ready to leave for
the North, a spruce young fellow came
into the baggage department 40 the depot
to get his trunk checked. It was there
all right, and he got intoa jangle with
the expressman about the charge for
bringing it down, and the depot officer
finally arrested both. On the way to the
station the young fellow tried to bride
the officer, and that settled him. We
went for the trunk, and when it was
opened every dollars worth of property
which had been stolen was found therein.
If there was a third man in the party,
which some of us believed, he saved his
bacon and got out SOM other way. In
baggage Of the second man, whom
nev identified, were three different
wigs and ssdhniskers to match. Both had
been in disguise when abroad, and it was
little wonder we could not spot the right
Both are still in prison, or have
been at liberty owe a year.-[New
York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
Paper ds Ssro1,a as ND

Paper, rendered as tough is sVood or
leather, has been introduced albFoaa ior
roofing and other purposes. The method
consists in mixing chloride 81 zlnc with
the pulp, n the process Of mSsnufaeture
i being also found that the greater the
degree of concentration Of zinc So
luton the greater Il The dsgreeof tough
ness. and consequently, e durability,
eharacteriziug the Paper. lae material.
y likewise adapted FIR nslns heKfs
taas|as etes
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

Our busy miners dug a good deal Of
precious metal out of United States soil
during 1886. The country produced
$37, 900, 900 more in mineral than in
1885, with a total value of S465, 900, 600.
The greatest increase was in gold and
iron, those old stand-byes, which, to-
gether, dominate the world.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
4knossan
Gimme bre7kfas AM Tn uy,t,ts

zko0sssa.
uImme brekias an III spiit yer ten
sticks q wood, said q tramp to a Sioux
Falls lady as she came to the back door.
NO, sir;I won't do it unless you split
twenty sticks
but yer ulster gimme bre'kfas' fer ten.
sticks.n
Cant help II: breakfasts have had i
boom since You were here last. You
spl1t twenty ~ move on, else Ell unite
tbs dog and come out with 4 kettle Of
hof water and saream tor Eha police ~
kata Beli,
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
SCENE III.
smith-Did you exterminate hima

Smith-Did you exterminate him2
Jones-Well, no, not exactly. i
couldn't have the heart to touch a hair
of that mans head.
smith-You be blowed, why didn't
you lick him2
Jones-I don't know. No doubt he
was afraid of me, but he didn't dare
show it. After all, I'm glad / let him
off easy.-[So. Boston News.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

Sergeant Mason, made famous for
having shot at Guiteau during
his trial for the murder of President
Garfield, has become a prosperous and
very quiet farmer in Orange county,
Virginia. He, with his wife Betty and
several babies, are reported to be per-
fectly comfortable in all respects.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24

The convict population of the United
States, not counting the rogues out of
jail, is 81, $40, or n in every $50 in
habitants. The 9s9 presumably honest
people ought not TO have such a heap of
trouble keeping and catching the one
rascal.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-09-24
Things are Not WIFI

II have just r~eturne from the ice
cream saloon with your laughter, sir,
whom I have left in the tlor, said the
young man, neryouslv. s5d-and-may
I say q word to you, sir3
Certainly, certainly responded the
old gentleman with prfy encourage
ment. go right ahea9s
Thanks. | want to fyou, sir, if
e you could lend me fiYeents to ride
w % Harlem Nth York Sun,